From: Steven Bink
Sent: maandag 18 juni 2001 23:24
To: Wortel
Subject: [bink.nu] NewsFlash 9
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WinXP-stuff
Sunday internal build 2493 slipped out of MS and it is Advanced Server! Haven't had the time to install it, but it should contain ActiveDirectory 1.1, IIS6 and MMC 2.0 I'll let you know when I have more info.
WindowBlinds for XP beta 4 is available
Windows-Blinds makes your Windows skinable in Windows 2000.
Windows XP has built in skinning (LUNA) which does more than themes did in Win9x. The only that are built in are: WindowsXP style, Classic Windows. To prevent support problems Microsoft let 3rd party's make skins for XP, currently Windows-Blinds is the only one. The Window-Blinds XP is fully integrated in the display properties of WindowsXP
Get it here: http://www.stardock.com/files/wbxp-b4_private.exe
WinXP Preview Program
Order now to get WinXP RC1 from MS. It will be released somewhere next week. When you order the preview program, you'll get the CD in July and can download RC2 from MS in august.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/preview/order.asp
Note: you may also be able to order at your countries MS website
Windows Messenger
WinXP Build 2486 contains build 4.0.0173 of Windows Messenger, you can download it and install it on your Windows at my site http://www.bink.nu/msn
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Hotmail
Cool Facts about Hotmail
Number of members in January 1998, when MSN acquired Hotmail: over 9 million
Number of active members** in May 2001: over 100 million
The MSN Hotmail user base has grown more than 10 times since January 1998, more than the world population has grown in the last fifty years.
On most days, the number of new people signing up for MSN Hotmail is greater than the number of babies being born around into the world.
In March 2001, More than 28 million users checked their MSN Hotmail on a single day - that's equivalent to nearly the entire population of Peru checking their Hotmail account each day.
More than 80 million MSN Hotmail members checked their account at least once in March 2001 - that's more than the number of baggage items that pass through London's Heathrow Airport, the busiest airport in the world, each year.
Hotmail is used in more than 220 countries and territories -- nearly every country and territory on the planet.
If MSN Hotmail users formed a city, it would be three times the population of Tokyo, the largest city in the world.
If MSN Hotmail users formed a country, here's it would rank after Mexico, which has the 11th largest population in the world. How it would fall into rank by population:
No. 11, Mexico, 100,349,766
No. 12, MSN Hotmail, 100,000,000
No. 13, Germany, 82,797,408
No. 14, Philippines, 81,159,644
No. 15, Vietnam, 78,773,873
Average number of messages MSN Hotmail users send each messages sent per
day: approximately 40 million -- equivalent to the number of people who visited Orlando, Florida, home of the Walt Disney World theme park, last year.
Percentage of Year on Year Growth for MSN Hotmail from January 2000 to January 2001: 82 percent
Number of times MSN Hotmail members, connected hand-to-hand, would circle the Earth at the equator: roughly three times
Number of times MSN Hotmail members, standing single file, would line the length of the Great Wall of China or the Nile River, the longest river in the world -- approximately 9 times
From the Guinness Book of World Records 2001: In April 2000, MSN Hotmail became the world's largest free Web-based e-mail service provider, with more than 60 million subscribers.
Number of trees saved by using MSN Hotmail: nearly 500 trees per day or 72,720 kilograms of paper per day!
Another fact. Hotmail runs on Windows 2000, read how MS migrated it from FreeBSD to win2k: http://www.microsoft.com/TechNet/migration/hotmail/default.asp
Hotmail is now supported in Outlook XP (2002) like Outlook express already did.
Hotmail is securing its service, as a consequence Hotmail will only be available to a Browser, Outlook XP and Outlook Express. So no 3rd party mail readers. Hmmm, there they go again. More info: http://www.theinquirer.net/18060107.htm
Steve Ballmer
Steve Ballmer visited my country last week (The Netherlands) to launch Office XP and to sign a deal with our government. The government wants to provide online services, like ordering a new passport online. It will mostly run on Microsoft software.......this raised some discussion in Holland. Some politicians want more "Open source" software vendors and some don't trust the security in MS software. I guess MS wins again, I assume the government made a good deal about the licensing costs. In the UK the government also setup services based on MS software, the websites only worked when browsed with IE! After complaints they changed it. Well time will tell how this will end up. Wanna see Ballmer? Watch him presenting Small Business Server 2000 in this video http://www.microsoft.com/sbserver/evaluation/overview/smallbuisness2.mpg
Exchange 2000 disaster
Last week there was an OWA (outlook web access) security hole patch for Exchange. MS had to release the patch 3 times!! until it really worked, the second patch did more harm then fix. Get the info and final patch here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-030.asp
Another Exchange issue,
This story is for more experienced software users/nerds
A design failure in Exchange causes the Exchange Enterprise Edition not to be so scalable as intended Microsoft is going to advise not to have more then 1000 users connected to a node in an active/active cluster. This was first mentioned in Win2k magazine's exchange newsletter by Jerry Cochran. When I read that, I was just finished designing a 3000 users per node active/active cluster based on MS and Compaq docs. I never saw anything on this limitation in this Docs. I tried to contact Jerry Cochran, but he didn't reply. So I posted questions in forums and someone contacted me and said it was true, he was in MS "non disclosure agreement" so couldn't say to much. It seems that there were concerns in fail-over when using more than 1000 users a node. He also said when SP1 is released the Docs will be updated with this new limit advisory. I was disappointed in the Scalability and "Enterprise"-ness of Exchange 2000 and was still hoping in some way it was a misunderstanding. I contacted Microsoft Engineers in Holland, they didn't know anything about this, but when they contacted US engineers I got the truth:
The Bug:
When MAPI clients (Outlook) connect to Exchange 2000 box it fragments the memory, when a lot MAPI clients do this all memory is claimed. So in an active/active cluster, when a node fails over to the other active node, the STORE.EXE fails to start because there is no memory available.
The workaround:
use no more then 1000 users per node
use an active/passive cluster
manually restart STORE.EXE on the working node, so memory will be freed and start unfragmented, then fail over. (Yeah right, so much for High
Availability)
Use win2k Datacenter 4 node cluster using 3 active nodes en one passive.
The Fix:
NO FIX !!! The problem is in the architecture design of exchange or rather STORE.EXE this can't be fixed by a hotfix or service pack. MS needs to reprogram it from scratch to overcome this. So that is why it won't be until Exchange 2003 (codename "Kodiak" when the limitation is fixed. Kodiak will be based on SQL database engine instead of the current ESE.
This is a sensitive issue for Microsoft. They can't fix it so they adjust the specs. When SP1 comes out the Whitepapers will be updated with the new limitations. Let me guess the title:
HOW TO INSTALL EXCHANGE 2000 NOT-SO-ENTERPRISE EDITION
:-)
Hotfix freaks
Post sp2 hotfixes here
http://support.microsoft.com/support/ServicePacks/Windows/2000/Win2000_Post-SP2_Hotfixes.asp
Some are not publicly available, but you can get it for free when you call MS Support in your country and supply the Q-id.
Then you download it here ftp://hotfix.microsoft.com/winnt/Windows_2000/sp3/
And when you receive the password of the downloaded file from MS Support you can install it. Don't bother to try to crack the password, me and my colleagues tried it and the tool said it would take more then a year!!
JUST IN:
Yet another security hole in WIn2k Indexing service get info and patch
here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-033.asp.
That's it for now
CU l8r m8 (been chatting this week and learning more of these every week :-P
Steven Bink bink@bink.nu
http://www.bink.nu
http://www.windowsxp.nu
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